Who is Jane Benyo and when did she marry Tom Petty?

Petty married his first wife Jane Benyo in 1974 when he was 24. The pair met in their hometown of Gainesville, Florida and decided to marry before they moved to Los Angeles in a bid to further Tom’s music career.

He told that he struggled to keep the marriage together, with Jane battling drug addiction and mental illness and him falling into a deep depression and subsequent drug addiction of his own.

The marriage was volatile, with Petty revealing in a biography that Benyo was verbally abusive to him and their two daughters.

They eventually divorced in 1996.

Did Jane Benyo and Tom Petty have children?

The couple had two daughters together, Adria in 1974 who is a film director and AnnaKim Violette, an musician and artist.

Speaking in a biography about her father, Adria said her mother “suffered from mental illness.”